Re: Linux problem

[nospam [at] janes.demon.co.uk (Matthew Collins)]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:16:46 +0000, Alastair Donlon
<adonlon [at] netsoc.ucd.ie> wrote:

>
>Do you have a link from '/usr/include/linux' to
'whereever_your_linux_root_is/include/
>linux/' (normally something like '/usr/src/linux/include/linux')? If not, and
this
>is the usual problem, then you just need to do
>
>cd /usr/include; ln -s ../src/linux/include/linux linux
>
>and you should be fine.
>
>Cheers,
>Alastair.

Argh! If he is running Debian, that will really break things. Debian
does things the Right Way (TM) and uses the Linux Headers from GlibC.
I don't know what red hat, anybody else does.
The reason for this is so that Application authors always have the
same Linux headers for each LibC version. This causes less problems
for User space applications.[1]
Red hat and others might still use the old method. I think this might
be a case of the HowTo's being out of date.

[1] This dosn't apply for Kernel level tools though, like VmWare. Who
only test their applications on RedHat boxes and so it dosn't compile
on a Debian Box. Who says we don't need the LSB?

--
Matthew Collins

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